The EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICTs to cultural heritage
The EPOCH research agenda for the applications of ICTs to cultural heritage
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EPOCH 关于信息通信技术在文化遗产中的应用的研究议程
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2007
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G. Geser
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D. Arnold;G. Geser
EPOCH -开放式文化遗产处理卓越网络-是在欧洲联盟第六框架方案优先事项2-信息社会技术下共同资助的一个卓越网络。EPOCH涉及95个来自不同领域的合作伙伴，他们聚集在一起，形成了对该领域的整体看法，整合并加强了以前针对物质文化遗产的智能信息和通信技术（ICT）的零散研究工作。这些技术的目标是纪念碑、遗址和博物馆及其收藏的有形遗产。古迹和遗址包括城堡、教堂、修道院、历史城镇中心、考古遗址和其他遗产遗址。
研究议程是对未来必要方向的辩论和专家意见的升华
在网络内外都发生了，因为这个跨学科的小组
分享了一个增加思想和观点交流的旅程，并让其他人参与辩论。
EPOCH是在采取该领域整体观点的基础上成立的。除了信息和通信技术研究人员外，该网络还包括文化经济学、艺术和人文科学、文化参与社会研究、文化管理、区域复兴和许多其他相关领域的研究人员，这些领域为文化遗产部门的政策制定和专业工作提供研究指导。
需要这种多学科和跨学科的做法，以充分实现欧洲联盟在《里斯本议程》中确定的目标，使欧洲知识社会在可持续经济增长和就业方面具有竞争力，成为一个基于高质量生活的投资、生活和工作的好地方。
欧洲丰富多样的文化遗产为《里斯本议程》作出了重大贡献。
文化景观、历史城镇、博物馆、纪念碑和其他遗产地有利于
欧洲旅游部门、遗产地和博物馆在以下方面显示出相当大的乘数效应：
在文化遗产领域的一个工作岗位可以在相关部门创造5至9个就业机会，它们推动了公民的文化学习和享受，并以许多其他方式为欧洲地区和城镇的生活质量和复兴做出了贡献。
信息和通信技术的应用和数字内容已经大大增加了这些社会效益，新的和更强的技术能力还有更多值得期待。这一期望促使在第七框架计划下专门资助合作研究项目（例如，ICT挑战“数字图书馆与内容”）和i2010信息社会下欧洲数字图书馆旗舰项目“数字图书馆”。
然而，要实现潜在的好处，还有很多工作要做。EPOCH努力提供一个共同的
文化遗产和信息和传播技术研究议程的目的是促进有关社区的更好的凝聚力，促进新倡议和项目之间的协同作用，更有效地使用现有资金，并产生更好和更可持续的基于信息和传播技术的解决方案。
EPOCH – Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage – has been a Network of Excellence cofunded under the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 2, Information Society Technologies. EPOCH involved 95 partners from a wide range of perspectives, brought together to create a holistic view of the field, integrating and enhancing the previously fragmented efforts in research directed toward intelligent information and communication technologies (ICT) for tangible cultural heritage. The target for these technologies is monuments, sites and museums and the collections of tangible heritage that they hold. Monuments and sites include castles, churches, monasteries, historic town centres, archaeological and other heritage sites.
The Research Agenda is a distillation of debates and expert opinions on necessary future directions
that have taken place both within the Network and beyond as this very inter-disciplinary group has
shared a journey over increasing cross fertilization of ideas and perspectives and engaged others in the debates.
EPOCH was founded on a basis of taking the holistic view of the field. As well as ICT researchers, the Network includes researchers in cultural economics, arts and humanities, social studies of cultural participation, cultural administration, regional regeneration and many other relevant fields of researchbased guidance of policy making and professional work in the cultural heritage sector.
This multi- and inter-disciplinarity is required to fully address the goals set by the European Union in the Lisbon Agenda to make the European knowledge society competitive in sustainable economic growth and employment and a good place to invest, live and work based on a high quality of life.
Europe’s rich and diverse cultural heritage makes considerable contributions to the Lisbon Agenda.
Cultural landscapes, historic towns, museums, monuments and other heritage sites benefit the
European tourism sector, Heritage sites and museums show considerable multiplier effects in
employment (one job in cultural heritage generating between five and nine in related sectors), they drive citizen’s cultural learning and enjoyment, and also contribute in many other ways to the quality of life and regeneration of European regions and towns.
ICT applications and digital content already add considerably to these societal benefits and there is much more to expect from new and enhanced technological capability. This expectation motivates dedicated funding of collaborative research projects under the 7th Framework Programme (e.g., the ICT Challenge ‘Digital Libraries and Content’) and the flagship project of a European Digital Library under the i2010 Information Society focus Digital Libraries.
Yet, there is much to do to deliver the potential benefits. EPOCH’s effort to provide a common
research agenda in cultural heritage and ICT is intended to foster a better cohesion of the communities involved, promote synergies among new initiatives and projects, yield more efficient spending of available funding, and result in better and more sustainable ICT-based solutions.